Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the orders and structures of societies, particularly in the fields of medical and nursing professions. The researcher aims to understand the experiences, sense of belonging, and decision-making processes about Japanese pre-service nursing students and how the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, and lockdown has influenced their understanding as pre-service nursing professionals in Japan. As this study focuses on the issues of pre-service nursing students, the researcher invited forty-nine pre-service nursing students for a virtual interview due to the recommendation of social distancing. To increase the coverage of the population, the researcher employed snowball sampling to recruit participants from all over Japan. Although the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the overall performance of the medical and nursing professions, all participants showed a sense of belonging as Japanese citizens and nursing professionals due to the natural disaster of their country. More importantly, all expressed their desires and missions to upgrade and improve the overall performance of the public health system due to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results discovered that many Japanese nursing students advocated that Japan’s national development, the benefits and advantages of their country, were of a greater importance than their own personal development and goals.
Highlights
In order to measure the differences between the period before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the researcher categorised the themes and subthemes based on two different timeframes
As this research study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the researcher could only capture data for the second timeframe
The results from this study indicated that these factors were not highly influenced by the recent COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
Nursing training and education is not a liberal arts study, but rather a vocational-oriented training for pre-service nursing professionals at the university level. Nursing students may spend time on campus for theoretical courses and general education requirements, a large portion of their time should be spent in clinical internships and placements [1]. The COVID-19 pandemic does not change the enrolment status and registration procedure of pre-service nursing students, their experiences, sense of belonging, and decision-making processes must be influenced by external and environmental problems, the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher aims to understand the experiences, sense of belonging, and career decision-making processes [2,3,4,5] of nursing students from two time periods (i.e., before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the COVID-19 pandemic).
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